{"id":189595,"date":"2010-03-06T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/06\/ok-this-is-freaky\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:31:00","slug":"ok-this-is-freaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/06\/ok-this-is-freaky\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is Freaky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So,  <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/report-massa-will-resign-monday.php?ref=fpa\">Eric Massa (D-NY-29) will resign Monday<\/a>, following an ethics investigation regarding sexual harassment of a male staffer.  He claims that it was simply, &#8220;Salty language,&#8221; and that the main reason was his diagnosis of Cancer, but this is decidedly odd.<\/p>\n<p>One of the odd things here is that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/back-to-216-massas-resignation-helps-pelosi-pass-health-care.php?ref=fpb\">his resignation makes passing healthcare reform easier<\/a>, because he is a conservative, though not officially a Blue Dog, Democrat, who voted against healthcare reform the first time around, so his exit removes a &#8220;no&#8221; vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Eric Massa (D-NY-29) will resign Monday, following an ethics investigation regarding sexual harassment of a male staffer. He claims that it was simply, &#8220;Salty language,&#8221; and that the main reason was his diagnosis of Cancer, but this is decidedly odd. One of the odd things here is that his resignation makes passing healthcare reform &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1046,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-healthcare","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}